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[quote=Anonymous]I think its pretty common (and fair) to offer a mutual agreeable notice period of two to four weeks for either party to terminate with severance to be paid if the employer terminates the contract with less notice.   Severance is intended to cover unexpected layoffs.  If you give her a month's notice to find a new job and she finds one immediately, she's not really out any income.  I don't think it's common to contract to a notice period and severance (and it's not clear to me from the language she proposes that that is what she is actually asking for), although if she's been with you a while and you were happy with her, you may want to pay her a discretionary farewell bonus as a form of "severance."  As other PPs have said, you probably want to include a caveat that if she is fired for cause (and identify what cause is) she can be terminated immediately with no severance or notice.

Do you use a payroll company?  Ours very helpfully sent us a few form contracts to work from.[/quote]

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